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  • Try to do some mentalrobics every single day! sub-lime adj:: Lofty, grand, or exalted in thought, expression, or manner.

    Braingle 2009

  • On the Confederate monument in the busy little city of Anderson, South Carolina, are the words: "And above all let him [the truthful historian] tell with what sub-lime endurance they met defeat, and how in poverty and want, broken in health, but not in spirit, they have recreated the greatness, and made it again the sweetest land on earth.

    The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South 1921

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